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June 16, 2011 ·
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Dawn spacecraft approaches asteroid Vesta
By T.K. RandallJune 16, 2011 ·
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Image Credit: NASA
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has taken remarkable images of its approach towards the massive asteroid.
The spacecraft is less than 300,000 miles from its target which is itself a huge 330 miles across, Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt and is considered to be a protoplanet because of its size and because it almost formed into a planet.The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D. C. It is a project of the Discovery Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. UCLA, is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va. , designed and built the Dawn spacecraft.
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